Burlington Stores was up 36% at $23.17 in morning trading. Re/Max jumped 18% to $26. Empire State Realty Trust was up 0.8% at $13.10. Broadly, U.S. stocks declined. The S&P 500 was recently down 0.7%.

The U.S. is on pace this year to see the most IPOs since 2007, according to Dealogic, fueled by the stock market’s rally to record highs.

Another familiar name is scheduled to join the IPO ranks Thursday. Sandwich-shop chain Potbelly Corp. and some of its current equity holders expect to raise up to $97.5 million, following Noodles & Co.’s blockbuster IPO in June. Potbelly raised its projection for its IPO price Wednesday morning, signaling strong demand as the deal comes together.

Burlington Stores raised $226.7 million in its return to the public market, following a $2.1 billion buyout by private-equity firm Bain Capital LLC in 2006. The retailer, which has seen improving sales of late, is a play on recovering consumer spending amid still-slow economic growth. Re/Max’s $220 million debut plays into another prevalent investing theme: bets on a healing U.S. housing market. Both deals priced above expectations late Thursday.

Empire State Realty Trust, one of the largest U.S.-listed real-estate investment trust IPOs ever with $929.5 million in proceeds, priced at the low end of its expected range.

Those deal values could all increase with the potential sale of additional shares to underwriters.

All three companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, but there’s been plenty of listing business to go around for the U.S. stock exchanges lately. In the last two weeks of September, 17 companies debuted on the Nasdaq Stock Market.